Category: Waistlines
Cardio for Weight Loss: does it work?
Cardiovascular exercise is important. Period. It helps to: strengthen our heart reduce stress stimulate our creativity boost productivity keep hormones in check …but does it help to promote weight loss? Sometimes, but not always. Starting from zero If you’re starting from scratch and haven’t really done any form of purposeful activity, then yes, cardio-only activity [...]
Workout Happy: Traci’s Top 10 Endorphin Boosters
Love and pain are forever intertwined thanks to neurotransmitters called endorphins. Endorphins are produced in the brain and, when in love, well…gives us such amazing lovey-dove feelings that, even if they sky fell, everything would be ok. They’re also produced in response to pain as an instant pain killer – to some degree – that [...]
Eat Right for Your Body Type: the dinner edition
Over the last couple days, I’ve written about foods that are right for your body type. Today I’m moving onto dinnertime. Need a recap? You can always jump back to the breakfast edition and the lunch edition. Here are a couple ideas for dinner for each body type: Pear Shape Dinner [...]
Eat Right for Your Body Type: the lunch edition
Yesterday’s post gave a quick overview of eating right for your body type, along with healthy breakfast suggestions for pear shapes, apple shapes, athlete shapes and babyfaces. Today the focus is on lunch. These are meant to be simple, uncomplicated suggestions. Let me know if you have questions. Here’s what’s cooking: Pear Shape [...]
Eat Right for Your Body Type: the breakfast edition
If you’re one of the many who has made a New Year’s resolution to lose a few pounds, eating foods that are right for your body type will get you moving in the right direction. The most common body types are Pears, Apples, Athletes and Babyfaces. If we gain excessive weight, fat tends to accumulate in [...]
Gastric Bypass: The Reboot Her Body Needed
Gladys Alcazar-Anselmo was heavy her whole life. From her youth on, she always thought she’d lose the weight. Despite countless efforts to shed unwanted pounds, nothing worked. For years she lived with sleep apnea, joint pain and a myriad of other physical conditions that were the result of the strain weight put on her body. [...]
The Truth About Holiday Weight Gain, and Foods That Pack it On
Studies show that most people will gain anywhere between one and three pounds over the holiday season. Nope, it’s not nearly as dramatic as you’d think, but those one to three pounds never seem to come off. Let’s say you gain a mere two pounds over the holiday season. You splurged more than you should [...]
The Two Week Goal: Put a dent in your fitness before Turkey Day!
Thanksgiving is officially two weeks away. Before the stress of the holidays hit, give yourself an assignment, a task or a goal to do each and every day for the next two weeks. It can be anything as long as it will result in something better for your body. What you do over the next [...]
3 Reasons Your Body Will Love Sweet Potatoes
Holidays and sweet potatoes go hand in hand. Check out a few of the reasons why your body will love, love, love this tasty root vegetable. 1. Sweet Potato + Olive Oil = A: Sweet potatoes on their own are nutritious, but the absorption of the abundance of beta-carotene in this vegetable is enhanced by pairing [...]
No Excuses (Rowing) Workout #22
If you’ve never worked out on an indoor rower, you should give it a try. As we head into the winter months, there is no greater way to lose your motivation to workout than getting bored with exercise. Rowing is the perfect solution to doing the same-old same-old day in and day out. What’s more, [...]
